5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (443+ words) Voters in Aurora are being asked in the Nov. 3 election if they want to change the city charter to reduce the mayor’s duties and add a city manager to the staff. The last time Aurora’s city charter was updated was…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (829+ words) The Aurora City Council has delayed deciding whether to loosen residency requirements for the city’s police and fire chiefs. The delay comes as the Aurora Fire Department continues to operate with an interim fire chief after former chief David McCabe…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (805+ words) Aurora Ald. Carl Franco, 5th Ward, has launched a website and formed a committee advocating to change Aurora’s form of government, formalizing an idea he has discussed for nearly a year. Franco would like to see Aurora run by a city…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (292+ words) Aurora councilmembers voted Monday night to delay a vote on establishing a license for businesses that target low-income communities, including liquor and vape stores. The license, if passed at the next meeting of the City Council in three weeks, would…...

3+ week, 3+ hour ago   (598+ words) AURORA | A controversial proposal to limit the number of businesses in Aurora that some say pose health and safety risks to neighborhoods is back at city council Monday night for a first vote. The proposal is sponsored by Councilmember Alison…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (399+ words) Aurora Mayor Curt Hendrix calls himself a “laid back, easy going, Christian fella” and he says the Lord wants him in Aurora. When he moved to town eight years ago he bought an old run-down house in the woods. “For…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (664+ words) Phiona Durrant is stepping back into Aurora’s municipal election, this time as a candidate for Ward 2 councillor, after initially announcing she would not seek elected office in 2026. Durrant, who challenged Mayor Tom Mrakas in the 2022 mayoral election, said she changed…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (268+ words) AURORA | A city library may be renamed to honor Aurora’s first Black council member, Edna Wilson Mosley. Councilmembers Alison Coombs and Gianina Horton are sponsoring a measure to rename the Central Library, on Alameda Parkway next to the Aurora Municipal…...

1+ mon, 21+ hour ago   (215+ words) The development authority is a special district that will be overseen by an 11-member board with the ability to levy taxes with the goal of revitalizing the area. Voters approved the Colfax development authority last November after years of conversation…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (1351+ words) Strong mayor powers are shaping up to be one of the clearest fault lines in Aurora’s 2026 municipal election, with Mayor Tom Mrakas defending the expanded authority he has used and mayoral challengers calling for its removal. The debate centres on…...